I had another idea for a site, this one's called DropCash and it was really a group effort. First, Jason designed the pages and did a lot of the thinking about how to present the screens and information to people so it made sense. Then I implemented the TypeKey authentication service so people wouldn't have to remember ANOTHER password/email/user combo (and I wouldn't have to build one). And finally it all rides on top of the excellent PayPal API.

I usually build sites by myself and then open them up for people to comment on them, but this time I tried to spread the work out as much as possible and I'm much happier with the result. I didn't let the project die on my hard-drive like so many other ideas I have.

If you'd like to see a better demonstration of how DropCash does its thing, head over to Gominosensei's site for a more detailed explanation.

Finally, and I'm not joking, here is what is being said about DropCash in this picture:
Me: "I can't figure out why nobody had done this yet."
Jeffrey: "So will you make any money?"
Me: "No."
Jeffrey: "That's why."

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I found a bug. If I create a new campaign, enter one email address, vlick Finish and then click back, change the email address and click Finish again, I then have two identical campaigns -- with different email addresses.

I have been begging Amazon.com to do something similar to this with their micropayments, by allowing people to apply micropayments to a specific gift so a group of people can buy something rather expensive for a mutual friend.

Is there any way to edit a campaign once created? It might be nice to have the ability to post encouragements or thank-yous after a campaign has reached, say, 50%. I realize that can be done through the comments, but it'd look better if it was actually more official, if you will. Something along the lines of "Update, 8/18/04, by mike: blah blah blah" below the bit telling about the campaign.

Another thought is to have the ability to have something on my webpage indicating the percentage that my campaign at, dynamically via DropLoad. Say, including <img src="http://www.dropcash.com/campaign/zempf/test/percent"> would return a generated image indicating that my quest to buy my poor Aunt Mabel a wheelchair is languishing at a lowly 12% of its goal.

I'm confused why I would want to use DropCash. Not only would I have to have a PayPal account, but I would have to go through the trouble of also creating a TypeKey account which I've never ran into before. For average Joe User, it seems to me that this makes it even more difficult to drop a donation. ??